On Oct 28, 2010, at 17:25, Michael Wild wrote: > Hi all > > Since I have to leave Mac OS X, I'm also forced to abandon BibDesk (which, by > the way is a really great tool). Naturally, I want to keep my BibTeX database > with the associated PDFs. As useful as these encoded aliases are on Mac, they > don't work on any other platform, so I created a small utility which decodes > those aliases into absolute paths. The tool is very crude (first-time I tried > myself at objective-c coding, you see), but does the job for me. Once > converted, it's easy to adjust the file references through > search-and-replace. In case others want to profit from it, the source is > available from here: http://gist.github.com/651532 > > Cheers, and keep up the excellent work. I'm still waiting for such a great > reference manager on Linux. > > Michael > > -- > There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat, > plausible, and wrong. > H. L. Mencken
Note that you can also (and probably more easily) do this using AppleScript. There is an AppleScript on the Wiki that turns the first linked file into a Local-Url field. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
